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Articles For Tag "Efficacy" |
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| #1 | 12/3/2012 | Chronic Pain and Opiates (Lewis Mehl-Madrona) I describe my struggle with prescribing opiates for people in chronic pain. My observation has been that my patients on opiates don't seem to be in any less pain than my patients not on opiates, and sometimes they are more grumpy. I explore the literature and learn that prolonged opiate use sensitizes people to feel more pain and that it can also act as a neurotoxin producing neuropathic-like pain, so perhaps not a good idea |
| #2 | 1/18/2011 | What we can learn from Tucson and why not to overreact!
(Lewis Mehl-Madrona) The recent tragedy in Tucson has led some commentators to demand more inpatient beds, easier commitment laws, and forced treatment with medication. I argue that none of this would have stopped Mr. Loughner, since he had not come to anyone's attention yet. We need to refrain from overreacting and further stigmatizing the mentally ill, who are, by and large, not violent, and we need to think about ways to reach out more.1  |
| #3 | 6/10/2010 | The Philosophy of Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine
(Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan) Mind-body-spirit medicine allows the unknown to be tackled by the body's built-in mechanisms. Thus the therapeutic potential of mind-body-spirit medicine is unlimited, while the purely biomedical approach confines itself to limits set by the logical mind.1 |
| #4 | 4/28/2010 | The Pros and Cons of Neurofeedback Training (Dr. Clare Albright) What are the pros and cons of neurofeedback training? |
| #5 | 1/7/2010 | Adding Biofeedback to your Eating Disorders Practice (Gary Ames) How to incorporate biofeedback as an evidence-based intervention. Neurofeedback study results for eating disorders. |
